Mohali, May 25 -- With civic issues taking precedence ahead of Tuesday's municipal corporation elections, residents of Mohali are increasingly flagging the stray animal menace as one of the city's urgent yet unresolved problems. From aggressive stray dogs making neighbourhood streets unsafe to roaming cattle posing accident risks on major roads and highways, citizens say repeated promises by the civic authorities have failed to translate into action.

Official data now underlines the scale of the crisis, with dog-bite cases rising sharply year after year, turning what was once seen as a nuisance into a public safety and governance issue. Data from the civil surgeon office, Phase 6-the designated district facility maintaining dog-bite reco...